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Cuba will Send 165 Health Professionals to Fight Ebola in Africa
an article by Radio Rebelde, Cuba
Cuba will join a global effort coordinated by the World Health
Organization (WHO) to fight Ebola in Western Africa by sending 165
health professionals, the island’s Health Minister Roberto Morales
announced in Geneva. 
Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda (third from left), Cuba's Health Minister, and the delegation that accompanied him during the conversations with Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization. Foto: Carmen Esquivel
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The medical brigade is made up of 62 doctors and 103 nurses with
over 15 years of experience, said Morales during a press conference
given by WHO director general Margaret Chan.
All these professionals have worked in other nations in the fight of
natural and epidemiological disasters, and in medical collaboration
missions, Morales said and noted that their selection was based on
their voluntary decision to jointly work with other doctors from any
country that joins the efforts.
This way, the Cuban government has responded to the call for
assistance made by the WHO and by UN secretary general Ban Ki-
moon as part of a world effort to fight the epidemic.
Cuba began assisting other nations just after the revolutionary
victory of 1959 and since that point in time 325 thousand 710
health workers have offered assistance in 58 countries of the world.
In the case of Africa, said Morales, a total of 76 thousand 744
Cuban health workers have offered their services thus far in 39
nations.
The Cuban Health minister called on the governments and health
ministers of all nations that can join the global effort against Ebola
at times when Africa is badly needing international solidarity and
support.
(Click here for a Spanish version of this article)
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